I think there's also a new Massiera comp on Finders Keepers and a Japanese soundtrack thing on Ethbo.
Anyone bought any of these yet? Thoughts? I really like the Michael Yonkers and Tristam Cary albums. Haven't got round to the rest yet though.

Roger Roger is a bit of a GG Towers favourite, as is Nino Nardini and Barry from Add N To (X) put these together, lots of rare tunes. The Milky Disco compilations contain stuff influenced by library music and THIS - http://lorecordings.greedbag.com/buy/moog-acid-5/ - is tremendous. Jean Jacques Perrey = legend.

To go all modern, Charlie Alex March's underrated album is out on Lo's "pop" imprint LOAF, and is well worth buying. Yes, we love all this stuff. Never admit influences, though, it leads to people hearing things that aren't there or setting themselves up for disappointment.

Now oddly, I've heard of LOAF. I think they put out that Extra Life record Saint_Cronin has been banging on about. I'm listening to that album on spotify now, and it does sound rather good.

I've heard some of that Jean Jacques Perrey stuff before, on a Susumu Yokota comp, that come to think of it might have been on Lo. I best get that though. A new cd for £5 - can't complain, and I'll check out the other stuff, cheers.

which, I guess isn't 'classical' as such, but certainly is more serious-minded and aimed at being progressive (or at least percieved like that) than stuff like Mort Garson and Raymond Scott, who in the latter's case, obviously wrote functional music to put babies to sleep to!
it was a bit of a throw-away comparison though, and as I say, I'm not really an expert, so I could be wrong about a few of those.

Nice to see Oval, Farben, Thomas Brinkmann and Kevin Blechdom on there.

It's reminded me though of the serious lack of Joe Meek in this thread, this is my favourite track produced by him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_qFkovJ54E(more studio-based manipulation than direct electronics though, I guess)

I lump The USA in with Os Mutantes and I guess teh Beatles with the 'using the studio as an instrument a bit more than the average 60s people' thing. I guess that's what they're doing idk really. I suppose it is electronica sort of.

There is a rereleased Silver Apples cd called 'The Garden' which is supposed to be 'the lost 3rd album' which is well worth a listen too if you haven't heard it. Lots of cool instrumentals.

quite different to the first two records, dare I say a tad more whimsical at points. All the instrumentals, weren't recorded at the time though, I'm fairly certain they were recorded in the 90's during the first Silver Apples reunion.

Can't believe I didn't see it yesterday...
If you want to get into any archeology of electronic music, Sub Rosa has the necessary comps (It's one of those websites that doesn't give proper links, but their called Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 1-5) Which reminds me that I still need to get Vol.5
As so much music has already been put forward allow me to digress into some other type of musings (or stop reading now).
Experimentation with electronic music resulted from a changing sound environment in the world. With the advent of industrialisation the world became not only louder but the sounds of the world also changed. People like Luigi Russolo tried to capture this in their music but found that existing instruments were not able to give them the sound they were looking for. Therefore new instruments had to be invented and created. The early electronic instruments were all intended to recreate existing sounds: Russolo's Intonarumori were intended to recreate the sounds of the street, Leon Theremin created the Theremin because he thought that radio bandwaves could sound like a violin. Where this experimentation gets interesting, for me, is when electronics started to get used to create something different. The epitomy of this is noise. On the one hand, the hand that is steeped in everyday life, noise was mostly heard as something vile and out of place, resulting in endless noise abatament campaigns. On the other hand, musicians were embracing noise(s) in their music and finally, as music. Electronics gave musicians a wider range of sounds to play with and, arguably more importantly, shifted the emphasis in music from harmony and meter to rhythm and timbre. This shift comes to the fore when in the 1970s electronics enter the pop realm.

still, a pretty amazing discovery resource for this stuff, if you want to give some titles a google. the root strata blog has put a couple of them up, and the Pythagoron, Ruth White (as mentioned), and Pietro Grossi records are pretty ace.

these days i really like lots of the scandinavian stuff that was getting made at the same time tho:
like Ralph Lundsten, Pekka Airaksinen and Erkki Kurenniemi...
i wish my school-days were like thsi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfDr9zaO_TQ